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Recent Examples of defection
Short-term savings often lead to long-term customer defection.
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Talbott Roche, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Quizzed about a potential defection at the press conference, Payne shutdown the rumors.
—Nada Aboul Kheir, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
Republicans are largely united in supporting Israel, but there are defections in Trump’s MAGA base and criticism from conservative personalities such as Megyn Kelly and Steve Bannon.
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 5 Sep. 2025
He's got support from Trump, who has spent days putting public pressure on any GOP senators considering defection.
—Savannah Kuchar, USA Today, 29 June 2025
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Talbott Roche, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Quizzed about a potential defection at the press conference, Payne shutdown the rumors.
—Nada Aboul Kheir, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
Republicans are largely united in supporting Israel, but there are defections in Trump’s MAGA base and criticism from conservative personalities such as Megyn Kelly and Steve Bannon.
—Laura Kelly, The Hill, 5 Sep. 2025
He's got support from Trump, who has spent days putting public pressure on any GOP senators considering defection.
—Savannah Kuchar, USA Today, 29 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for defection
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The diehard climate activists have an orthodoxy from which even the slightest deviation is apostasy.—
Robert G. Eccles,
Forbes.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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Whether his parents realize the extent of his apostasy isn’t clear.—
Judith Shulevitz,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2025
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Putin said Ukraine’s armed forces had a grave lack of manpower and desertions, while Russia had enough soldiers.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
2 Oct. 2025
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Mobilization has stalled, with brigades undermanned, and desertion in the ranks is a mounting problem.—
Joshua Yaffa,
New Yorker,
22 Aug. 2025
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In her autobiography, Mabel Dodge laid the blame for her schism with Stein firmly on one person.—
Via Scribner,
Literary Hub,
7 Oct. 2025
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The Chiles case shines a spotlight on a growing schism in the LGBT base between gender-critical gays and their transgender counterparts.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
6 Oct. 2025
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The investigation into the baby's abandonment is ongoing, with police asking anyone with information to come forward.—
Becca Longmire,
PEOPLE,
29 Sep. 2025
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Beneath her white coat and calm demeanor lived a woman weathered by trauma, grief, and emotional abandonment.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
26 Sep. 2025
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The second major structural change involves one of the hallmarks of SARS-CoV-2 as compared to SARS-CoV-1: initial scission at the S1 furin cleavage site.—
William A. Haseltine,
Forbes,
6 May 2022
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Wilson cautions more work is needed to explain how exactly spin results after scission.—
Charles Q. Choi,
Scientific American,
24 Feb. 2021
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Wole’s infidelity is an important inciting incident, but this moment of personal reckoning was inevitable.—
Cressida Leyshon,
New Yorker,
28 Sep. 2025
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This type of infidelity can stem from dissatisfaction in the relationship or a desire for something different.—
Melina Khan,
USA Today,
25 Sep. 2025
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Under Erdogan, Turkey has long supported different Islamist factions to further its strategic interests, especially the goal of countering Kurdish separatism on its southeastern periphery.—
Kamran Bokhari,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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In contrast to other, more mainstream Civil Rights organizations, SNCC leaders began to emphasize Black separatism, which alienated white participants.—
Time,
Time,
7 Aug. 2025
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What’s crazy is that the whole thing was a misconception.—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Oct. 2025
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That misconception must be eradicated from our society.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Defection.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defection. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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